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pollsters, they say, this is the truth, it has always been equal parts art and science. guest: i do not know if i agree with that. it is more science and art, that is why we are paid to do what we do, and we think they are generally pretty accurate. that is why you see polls from different sides of the aisle, some polls have been different results. i think that there is a little bit of hyperbole to call it four pollsters. maybe they are having the worst week. guest -- host of this poll shows mitt romney being ahead six points -- host: this poll shows mitt romney ahead by six points in florida, another one showing obama up by five points. [laughter] guest: same weekend? there are two polling firms out there, that there have been real questions about. going back to the point that andrew made, you have to make an assumption that some point. is turnout going to be like it was in 2004? which was even between the parties? or will it be more like 2008, with seven points for the democrats? my preference is to look in between. but what the poll has been doing in particular is loo
pollsters, they say, this is the truth, it has always been equal parts art and science. guest: i do not know if i agree with that. it is more science and art, that is why we are paid to do what we do, and we think they are generally pretty accurate. that is why you see polls from different sides of the aisle, some polls have been different results. i think that there is a little bit of hyperbole to call it four pollsters. maybe they are having the worst week. guest -- host of this poll shows...
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who failed to predict the financial earthquake what's the penalty for them well clearly this type of science of course there is some predictable outcomes in some scientific method but in the realm of economics it's due. tea leaves raining there is no science behind it it's guesswork and best so we have to make sure we understand that when we're evaluating economists we know that basically and so a bunch of mumbo has not yet been scientific rules to establish for economics yet is still very much. we don't really know exactly what makes the economics work yet and in a way it's the opposite in economics in that you hear all the time now the man who predicted the financial crash here that over and over every single economist or financial expert announcer introducer interviewed on a television show but you also have this. notion that there was there were people like brooksley born who predicted. that fraud would lead to financial collapse right won't economics is tied to human psychology and human nature whereas something like chemistry or physics is not tied to those vagaries so in the realm of
who failed to predict the financial earthquake what's the penalty for them well clearly this type of science of course there is some predictable outcomes in some scientific method but in the realm of economics it's due. tea leaves raining there is no science behind it it's guesswork and best so we have to make sure we understand that when we're evaluating economists we know that basically and so a bunch of mumbo has not yet been scientific rules to establish for economics yet is still very...
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discovery as an indicator of so-called outcomes predictive outcomes and i know this well it's used by the science on the internet as some know outcome predicting mechanism yes yes and the price is predicting the outcome just like what high frequency trading is trying to manipulate the psychology of the market trying to trigger either buying or selling the same thing here in trade dot com how to swing the prediction markets and boost mitt romney's fortune. so after the last debates max between mitt romney and barack obama. somebody spent seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars on in trade driving romney's contract from forty one dollars up to forty eight dollars well within six minutes it plunged back down to forty one dollars so somebody some mysterious trader lost one thousand two hundred fifty dollars for shares that subsequently collapsed in value they ask was this just someone who made an expensive trade or was somebody trying to influence in trade odds in order to sway perceptions of the race as we saw it on the show many times price propaganda if you create the price the public will buy in
discovery as an indicator of so-called outcomes predictive outcomes and i know this well it's used by the science on the internet as some know outcome predicting mechanism yes yes and the price is predicting the outcome just like what high frequency trading is trying to manipulate the psychology of the market trying to trigger either buying or selling the same thing here in trade dot com how to swing the prediction markets and boost mitt romney's fortune. so after the last debates max between...
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the moved to higher ground in the flooding.r workers say given their location, they have flood prep science, and their defenses work. it did not getss inside at all. safe than sorry. everything upstairs and prepared for the worse. luckily it did not happen like they predicted. just to give you a sense of where the flood waters came last night, you see the blue part of the fish market restaurant there? wherethe base of that is got to last night. folks say it was some of flooding they have in old almost a decade town, an area known for flooding. for most businesses, sandbags and other their job,ally did been a lotld have worse. said, there's a few more tides they are concerned especially one tomorrow morning the city officials are keeping a close eye on. the worst is over, seeing muchnot be flooding, but it is not a certain thing. e monitoringy will b closely until tomorrow night. will that, they feel they .e out of the woods for sure >> good deal. thanks. people in western maryland and virginia have a much different story on their hands. thousands of people because of these conditions you se
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straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. ♪ >> read my lips. ♪ >> jennifer: you are back inside "the war room." i'm jennifer granholm. if you feel like there has been a lot more presidential campaign tv commercials this year than there was in 2008, you would be right. four years ago, about 637,000 adsed a aired at this point in the race. this year, that number has sky rock setted to 915,000 commercials, a 44% increase. unbelievable. enough to make you long for the days when political tv ads were a novelty. well, tonight in part two of our eight-part series the selling of the presidents. barry lank takes us back to when it all began. >> it was 1952 television was the big new thing. >> eisenhower answers america. >> dwight eisenhower's team lead the way to bring the candidate right into america's living rooms. >> help me put the lid on crazy government spending. >> the ads were very effective. they made more than 40 eisenhower america spots. >> the camera in eisenhower was lookin
straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. ♪ >> read my lips. ♪ >> jennifer: you are back inside "the war room." i'm jennifer granholm. if you feel like there has been a lot more presidential campaign tv commercials this year than there was in 2008, you would be right. four years ago, about 637,000 adsed a aired at this point in the race. this year, that number...
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well so much science technology and innovation all the list of melamine still around russia we've got this huge earth covered. change.
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i think the general wisdom gom of the political science literature is that when there is some kind of a disaster, it is usually easier for the incumbent zero to occupy that space, that is a national function of government. >> rose: meaning that the incumbent gains something because he is in a seat of power and, therefore, he is even responding to an emergency. >> that obama can go and staley stay in washington, d.c. and monitor the disaster, right, and the press corps will treat that a as being appropriate and presidential strategy where romney goes and has. >> rose: a fund raiser. >> a fund raise never ohio and say it is just a campaign rally, so maybe it reflects bias media coverage but it does put him in more of a corner. >> has there been and is it still a momentum for governor romney that came out of the first geability in denver? >> so .. we perceived, we don't perceive anymore momentum for romney, and let me define momentum, how we would think of it and that means are you still making gapes in the polls? and what we found a is that romney gained for a couple of weeks, after den
i think the general wisdom gom of the political science literature is that when there is some kind of a disaster, it is usually easier for the incumbent zero to occupy that space, that is a national function of government. >> rose: meaning that the incumbent gains something because he is in a seat of power and, therefore, he is even responding to an emergency. >> that obama can go and staley stay in washington, d.c. and monitor the disaster, right, and the press corps will treat...
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science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earthquake covered. mission. couldn't take three months for a charge of free. range month three. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh god r.t. dot com.
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she talks to guess and science books at americans for tax reform here in washington. this is about 20 minutes. >> hello, hello, thank you kindly. >> thanks for writing the book. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, hello. gary johnson? no, no, no come after wednesday night you've got to be a romney grow now. >> good to see you. >> archer glad i'm not blaming you? they held me over as explained in as root to look at your watch in the end bunch of middle of an interview. it's like a half an hour later. [inaudible conversations] >> i haven't seen you in such a long time why haven't you had me on? that's great, i'll be in new york for that. i'll see you later. >> have you read it? >> now, but she sent it to us as a crackerjack surprise inside it was dedicated. >> has or has been it yet? >> no, leave them alone. he changed his e-mail address on me by the way. i know i've e-mailed you and you aren't e-mailing me back. >> i hadn't planned to say anything, but some family, my publisher, editor of human events told me to be polite for me to say something, so i went to first
she talks to guess and science books at americans for tax reform here in washington. this is about 20 minutes. >> hello, hello, thank you kindly. >> thanks for writing the book. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, hello. gary johnson? no, no, no come after wednesday night you've got to be a romney grow now. >> good to see you. >> archer glad i'm not blaming you? they held me over as explained in as root to look at your watch in the end bunch of middle of an...
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which isn't rocket science. so i test... a lot. do you test with this? freestyle lite test strips? i don't see... beep! wow! that didn't take much blood. yeah, and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. so easy. yep. freestyle lite needs just a third the blood of onetouch ultra. really? so testing is one less thing i have to worry about today. great. call or click today and get strips and a meter free. test easy. >>> paul ryan is running for vice president of the united states. why is the man running for president of the united states sending his running mate to places in the united states where the people who are going to decide the election cannot see him? that's ahead. zeebox is the free app that makes tv even better. if your tv were a prom queen, zeebox would be a stretch limo. with this enchanting union, comes a sunroof she can scream from... i'm goin' to prom! [ male announcer ] ...and a driver named bruce that she can re-name james... faster, james! [ male announcer ] ...just 'cause. download zeebox free, and have the night of your life with your tv. your m
which isn't rocket science. so i test... a lot. do you test with this? freestyle lite test strips? i don't see... beep! wow! that didn't take much blood. yeah, and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. so easy. yep. freestyle lite needs just a third the blood of onetouch ultra. really? so testing is one less thing i have to worry about today. great. call or click today and get strips and a meter free. test easy. >>> paul ryan is running for vice president of the...
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i am a political science guy. i have to tell you, michael bloomberg is an opportunist. you violated the new york city charter by running for a third term as mayor. we are in a very dire state here and i wish republicans run the country would offer us new york republicans help and an opportunity to really balance out the political system here. host: thank you for the call this morning. if a time for a few more calls. all weekend long we will be featuring the history and literary life of vermont capital city with a population of just about 8000 people. the smallest united states state capitol. here is the mayor talking about the city. [video clip] >> it is the smallest state capital and america. in terms of vermont, we have the largest historic district in the state. it is a very historic community, founded in 1791. it is run to about 20,000 during the day. largely because of the jobs that are here, the center of commerce and the area. we are fortunate here that we are somewhat insulated from a lot of the trends that occurred nationally. our economy is pretty stable becau
i am a political science guy. i have to tell you, michael bloomberg is an opportunist. you violated the new york city charter by running for a third term as mayor. we are in a very dire state here and i wish republicans run the country would offer us new york republicans help and an opportunity to really balance out the political system here. host: thank you for the call this morning. if a time for a few more calls. all weekend long we will be featuring the history and literary life of vermont...
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a little can go a long way. >> math and science and english. >> exactly. >> i did not go to university, but i would like to help them. i feel excited. >> i'm going to be an accountant. >> i'm going to be a lawyer.
a little can go a long way. >> math and science and english. >> exactly. >> i did not go to university, but i would like to help them. i feel excited. >> i'm going to be an accountant. >> i'm going to be a lawyer.
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other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. ♪ ♪ >> bob: happy halloween you pagans. first, let me say, who are the people that got thisly lack chocolate? >> andrea: not supposed to say that. >> bob: sorry. dade porter. >> bob: i wasn't supposed to say that. i'll talk about halloween, and what is your favorite costume? favorite candy? >> eric: it was supposed to be your favorite candy and our favorite story. >> bob: chocolate is my favorite. >> eric: listen, my son is 14 now. he doesn't trick-or-treat anymore. which is sad. i loved it when he was a little guy dressed up in costume. take him every halloween. my favorite video are the ones that they sit on the thing like a scare crow and you don't know they're human, they jump out and get smacked. i love those videos. that's all i got. >> dana: halloween has come really long way. because remember the plastic masks that you would put on and they have two holes in the nose so you could breathe? in colorado, thanks to global warming it
other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. ♪ ♪ >> bob: happy halloween you pagans. first, let me say, who are the people that got thisly lack chocolate? >> andrea: not supposed to say that. >> bob: sorry. dade porter. >> bob: i wasn't supposed to say that. i'll talk about halloween, and what is your favorite costume? favorite candy? >> eric: it was...
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other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. >>> just before halloween last year was a giant snowstorm in the northeast. kind of ruined trick or treating and it turned out to be the only real snow we got all year. basically it sucked. this year we're anticipating another big weather event right before halloween and it's actually looking like it might be a big enough weather event it might mess with another big national thing a week after halloween and that's something you might have heard of called election day. halloween is wednesday and election day is the tuesday after that. forecasters at the national weather service have taken to calling what is upon us a frankenstorm. it's a come by niegs combination of a few things. it's a hurricane. but hurricane sandy combines with a winter storm coming out of the west and that combines further with a blast of arctic air. a storm or a storm system or combination of storm systems that's potentially this significant is always of national signif
other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. >>> just before halloween last year was a giant snowstorm in the northeast. kind of ruined trick or treating and it turned out to be the only real snow we got all year. basically it sucked. this year we're anticipating another big weather event right before halloween and it's actually looking like it might be a big enough weather...
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other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. >> many say me are cold jobs in ohio. obama administration made the epa a dirty term. >> how it could make a huge difference of who wins the election in the buckeye state. we have an inside look at ohio. >> welcome to cold country ohio eastern and southeastern ohio where mining dots the landscape. pining offers some of the best paying blue collar jobs. >> 60 years 100 percent medical, ten tal. >> they left to be a carpenter. they have 6 miners as a family. >> is the epa a dirty word around here? >> yes, sir. >> i have a little gas on the way in a cold mine dirty coal, fireplace being shut down left and right because of epa. that is not a good word around here. >> that helps explain the signs out here. >> the co-op rate tors are putting a lot of money around here. the signs were printed by co-op rate tors. >> new federal emissions regulations have been tough. in ohio alone a dozen have shut down. 7 ohio coal mines have also closed. they back
other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. >> many say me are cold jobs in ohio. obama administration made the epa a dirty term. >> how it could make a huge difference of who wins the election in the buckeye state. we have an inside look at ohio. >> welcome to cold country ohio eastern and southeastern ohio where mining dots the landscape. pining offers some of the...
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straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>> good sunday afternoon. we're coming to you live from bo diddley community plaza here in gainesville, florida. a live look at an early voting celebration of sorts. we'll tell you more about that in just a few moments. gospel music festival. hundreds of church goers who have come out to vote. farther north, though, the one thing that everyone is talking about, the massive hurricane stretching along the east coast. hurricane sandy expected to bring life-threatening storm surge to the mid atlantic coast. we'll be getting the very latest on the storm along with a live report here. back here in gainesville the push to connect voters at the bol lot box before election day, earlier i talked to a few folks who came to vote today. >> why vote early? >> when things are important, you give it priority. and this is very important and those folks that don't voted, should feel very bad about themselves. >>> back to politics in just a moment. first we
straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>> good sunday afternoon. we're coming to you live from bo diddley community plaza here in gainesville, florida. a live look at an early voting celebration of sorts. we'll tell you more about that in just a few moments. gospel music festival. hundreds of church goers who have come out to vote. farther north, though, the one thing that...
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help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. to start her own interior design business. she's got a growing list of clients she keeps in touch with using e-mail marketing from constantcontact.com. constantcontact is easy and affordable. it lets her send out updates and photos that showcase her expertise and inspire her customers for only $15 a month. [ dog barking ] her dream -- to be the area's hottest interior design office. [ children laughing ] right now, she just dreams of an office. get a free trial at constantcontact.com. >> tonight a new study from the project for excellence in journalism. look at the three major networks evaluating positive and negative coverage of the two presidential candidates. since i don't know what "positive" means, i am throwing that out and i can do that because i'm the anchor of the program. but i absolutely do know what negative means and here's the stats on that. gov. romney, 36% of the coverage has been negative, 63% neutral. nbc, and fox news 12%
help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. to start her own interior design business. she's got a growing list of clients she keeps in touch with using e-mail marketing from constantcontact.com. constantcontact is easy and affordable. it lets her send out updates and photos that showcase her expertise and inspire her customers for only $15 a month. [ dog barking ] her dream -- to be...
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this is not rocket science. to the extent that voting in florida is a debacle, it's one made by design. the ballot in florida is ten pages long. and with fewer days to vote, you get really long lines. but that's the way it goes in florida now. leading up to the election, florida republicans cut the time for early voting in half. so now floridians stand in long lines. they pass new restriction on registering voters so thousands fewer new voters signed up. and the governor has tried to purge the voter rolls. in south florida and palm beach county, 30,000 ballots were printed wrong. clerks have been copying what the voters marked on to new ballots that can fit into the tabulating machines. dozens asked for absentee ballots and still haven't gotten them because they screwed up the ballots. the situation is worse in broward county where people have waited for weeks for absentee ballots. you can say that florida's election is another debacle in the making were it not already a debacle right now. and it is. joining us
this is not rocket science. to the extent that voting in florida is a debacle, it's one made by design. the ballot in florida is ten pages long. and with fewer days to vote, you get really long lines. but that's the way it goes in florida now. leading up to the election, florida republicans cut the time for early voting in half. so now floridians stand in long lines. they pass new restriction on registering voters so thousands fewer new voters signed up. and the governor has tried to purge the...
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i want to recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers are we do not fall behind the rest of the world. i want to train businesses -- or to train americans for the businesses that are high renown. that is change. that is what i am fighting for in this election. [applause] change comes when we live up to this country's legacy of innovation. i'd believe in change what i bet on the american auto industry, but i really proud of not just the fact that we're building cars in america again, but we're building cars -- better cars because of technology and innovation. karzai we are building now by the middle of the next decade were " -- will vote twice as far. it will help national security in the environment. it is not just the auto industry where we can make these kinds of strides. thousands of workers all across america, including here in florida, a better making -- lasting batteries, wind turbines and solar panels. i want to subsidize and support the energy jobs of tomorrow, the new technologies that will cut oil imports in half. i do not want to reward companies that ship jobs overseas, bu
i want to recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers are we do not fall behind the rest of the world. i want to train businesses -- or to train americans for the businesses that are high renown. that is change. that is what i am fighting for in this election. [applause] change comes when we live up to this country's legacy of innovation. i'd believe in change what i bet on the american auto industry, but i really proud of not just the fact that we're building cars in america again, but we're...
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an art that may not be going well. >> art and science. there tends to be a lot of flaws in latino polling. it tends to bias towards higher socioeconomic status latinos. two reasons. latinos seem to be overwhelming users of cell phones. the ones that don't use a mix of land lines and cell phones, miss latinos who frankly are poorer. second is a lot of polling that looks at latinos uses just monday lingual english speakers. if you say hola, they say we're going to call you back. then you get a spanish speaking interview. what you really need is the mix of land line and cell phone. you need bilingual callers so you have a more accurate sample of all latinos, rich and poor, spanish speaking and nonspanish speaking. >> why they don't do it because it costs more. >> there's one thing. on this question of expanding the map, i want to go to you katon on this. listen to rick bee son from the romney campaign on fox news talking about expanding the map. >> four years ago this weekend, president obama was campaigning in indiana. today governor romney
an art that may not be going well. >> art and science. there tends to be a lot of flaws in latino polling. it tends to bias towards higher socioeconomic status latinos. two reasons. latinos seem to be overwhelming users of cell phones. the ones that don't use a mix of land lines and cell phones, miss latinos who frankly are poorer. second is a lot of polling that looks at latinos uses just monday lingual english speakers. if you say hola, they say we're going to call you back. then you...
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here is their conclusion as published in the prestigious journal cycle science, americans are happier when national wealth is distributed more evenly than when it is distributed unevenly. that's why hurricane sandy isn't a distraction from this election. it's actually at the heart of it. it's about the kind of society that we wish to imagine for ourselves. and here is how the president described it just an hour ago as he visited the red cross. >> during the darkness of the storm, i think we also saw what's brightest in america. nurses at nyu hospital carrying fragile newborns to safety. we've seen incredibly brave firefighters in queens waist-deep in water battling interknoi infern rn
here is their conclusion as published in the prestigious journal cycle science, americans are happier when national wealth is distributed more evenly than when it is distributed unevenly. that's why hurricane sandy isn't a distraction from this election. it's actually at the heart of it. it's about the kind of society that we wish to imagine for ourselves. and here is how the president described it just an hour ago as he visited the red cross. >> during the darkness of the storm, i think...
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., the national science foundation, so i would take issue with the fact that, you know, the republic of texas is making it all on their own. they're getting substantial benefits from federal research and development dollars. which is fine. i don't have any problem with that at all. but to benefit from the oil industry in such a profound way is a unique situation. we don't have that situation every y -- everywhere. but texas does benefit from nasa, from the national science foundation and the national institutes of health. that's helped spur their economy as well. >> congressman, gary on twitter wants me to ask you, why didn't obama stick his neck out for the nonunion workers who lost their peppings in the auto bailout. can you talk that out? >> that's an urban legend. we are working, nart brown and i are working very hard to help the seven or eight splinter unions that didn't end up doing as well as the u.a.w., the iue crferings wa which had contracts essential to the development of the new general motors. but this is not a union-nonunion issue. there were seven or eight different un
., the national science foundation, so i would take issue with the fact that, you know, the republic of texas is making it all on their own. they're getting substantial benefits from federal research and development dollars. which is fine. i don't have any problem with that at all. but to benefit from the oil industry in such a profound way is a unique situation. we don't have that situation every y -- everywhere. but texas does benefit from nasa, from the national science foundation and the...